SotB Corner
Students on the Beamline (SotB) is an authentic and immersive science research experience for high school students. It is unique in that the students are the scientists 'driving' their own research – using Canada’s only synchrotron! You can see examples of projects in our SotB database below.
Important Notes
We gratefully acknowledge previous funding from PromoScience and if you are interested in participating, check back to our main webpage to see how to get started, what's involved, and more!
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Upcoming Dates
Next Education SotB Proposal Submission Deadline is April 30, 2024 for groups hoping to come in 2025. There is a new form. Information is on our SotB web page. Contact us for the application form.
Teacher training in SotB is required to apply to the SotB Program. Our next training is TBD. Reach out to us at education@lightsource.ca or visit the website to learn more details.
Poster Competition
Check out the 2023 posters who competed and check out which have won the Judges, Peer-Review, Public Vote and Staff Vote competitions!
SotB YouTube Seminars
We have had 100s of students come through the SotB program and have cultivated a video playlist capturing of their stories. Hear from veteran teachers as well!
SotB Projects Database
We are sharing our complete SotB project summaries through Airtable, which is a handy spreadsheet application that acts like a database! In this Airtable, we list our SotB projects and have grouped them in school years the student groups participated in. For some of these groups though, they may have been working on their project the year before their beamtime.
With this table, you will find the name of the school/community that has participated in the first column (alphabetized) and the other columns helping describe the project of that school group. Click on the expand arrow in each cell (blue arrows in the right corner) or expand the whole entry, known as a record, by clicking the blue arrows on the far left, right after the number. Also provided are links to the SotB Posters when a group participated and any recorded seminars (starting in 2018).
To search the database, click on the magnifying icon in the top right-hand corner and enter some keywords or a science area. Looking for a summary of your own school? Investigating ideas for a research project? You can also use the filter feature. If you cannot find what you are looking for, please reach out to us.